IGB spend €18k on PR to deal with fallout from RTÉ Investigates programme

The Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) spent almost €18,000 on public relations consultants in the three months after an RTÉ Investigates programme exposed shocking welfare abuses in the industry last year.

The IGB, which receives annual state funding of around €16m, hired top communications firm Heneghan PR a week after the documentary claimed that 6,000 greyhounds were being killed every year.